This morning I received my new Asus N76VB latop with windows 8 pre-installed. I also got myself a crucial M500 SSD though so I wanted to installe windows 8 on this drive.
After many failed attempts I got frustrated and decided to just go with windows 7. Unfortunately it turned out that the 2 keys I got from microsoft when I was a student are not being accepted anymore.
So at this moment the only legal windows I own is the windows 8 that came pre-installed with the laptop. The laptop didn't come with a windows disk though and to download one legally from microsoft I need my product key, which I don't have and don't know how to get since windows 8 is not installed anymore (meaning a program like belarc can't seem to help me).
My last option seemed to be to restore the laptop, since I didn't format the restore partition. But when I try this I get the message "unable to reset your pc. a required drive partition is missing".
So at this moment I'm completely stuck and don't know how to solve this. I want windows 8 on the SSD but at this point I would even be happy if I could just restore to how it was.
Any help would be hugely appreciated!
Thanks!
After many failed attempts I got frustrated and decided to just go with windows 7. Unfortunately it turned out that the 2 keys I got from microsoft when I was a student are not being accepted anymore.
So at this moment the only legal windows I own is the windows 8 that came pre-installed with the laptop. The laptop didn't come with a windows disk though and to download one legally from microsoft I need my product key, which I don't have and don't know how to get since windows 8 is not installed anymore (meaning a program like belarc can't seem to help me).
My last option seemed to be to restore the laptop, since I didn't format the restore partition. But when I try this I get the message "unable to reset your pc. a required drive partition is missing".
So at this moment I'm completely stuck and don't know how to solve this. I want windows 8 on the SSD but at this point I would even be happy if I could just restore to how it was.
Any help would be hugely appreciated!
Thanks!
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